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X-X Word Update, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

The letter X has always fascinated people. It represents that unknown, the indefinable, the mysterious. An X may be used to designate a kiss, a ten-dollar bill, a type of chromosome, and a strength of ale, as well as a person's signature, a mistake, hybridity, and a movie rating. The X-Lexicon is an unpublished collection of approximately three thousand terms beginning with X (there are 486 solid-form X-words in the Air Force list of Webster's Second Edition). To further illustrate its comprehensiveness, the X-Lexicon contains 376 terms starting xanth-, from Xanthaea to xanthylium.

Siamese Triplets, Peter Newby

Word Ways

Alongside is a nine-letter word example of my latest development in the technique of the insertion/deletion. As many long words consist of two or more simple words, one can, by considering these elements independently, bring into the realm of wordplay many long words otherwise denied standard treatment. Beauty of presentation is maintained by restricting all actions to within the confines of a rectangle, though other possibilities will be mentioned later. For convenience, therefore, I will refer to the original example as a rectangular triplet.

Barcelona, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Summer, 1992: the World Olympics, Numerous hours of televised sport, early in the morning; throughout the day and evening, set watching hours of physical action, how about giving yourself some mental exercise?

Gulf War Communiques, Howard Richler

Word Ways

During the Gulf War, all official commiques were written in English. Unlike Indo-European languages, Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic are written from right to left.

Titles To Trace, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

We are proud of our unparalleled collection of specialized encyclopedias. We are now trying to trace the whereabouts of the following lost volumes. Can you help complete our sets?

The End Of The Word: J, Dan Tilque

Word Ways

The letter J is the second least common last letter in English, exceeded in rarity only by Q. Words ending in J are sufficiently rare that it is feasible to compile a list of all such words.

Mother Of Anagrams, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Some mothers, as we all know, have definite delusions of grandeur and have to be brought gently down to earth. Endeavoring to distract my mother's attention from her latest "bete noir", I used a colloquialism when I said "DIG MENSA, MA", while explaining to her the round table organisation for people with high IQs.

-Gry Words In The Oed, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Now that the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is available on the Cd-Rom (see review elsewhere in this issue), and phrase ending in -GRY is that august work - and, at the same time, check the diligence of those who previously mined out these words by hand. There are, in fact, only seven words not previously spotted in the OED by Word Ways researchers; these are labeled with + below. One of these, UNAGRY, was noted in another dictionary. Five are variants or compounds based on ANGRY and HUNGRY: NANGRY, LAND-HUNGRY, LEATHER-HUNGRY, MAN-HUNGRY, AND YEARD-HUNGRY. The last one, …

Chit-Chat And Bibble-Babble, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

"Baa-baa" goes the sheep, "gusy-gusy" used to mean "macho", and birds go "tweet-tweet". I trust you will not be shattered, like "Humpty-Dumpty", by these request for reduplication.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Sunday Bulletin Catholic Office For The Deaf, November 1, 1992

Sunday Bulletin Catholic Office for the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Pittsburgh, PA

Sunday Bulletin Catholic Office for the Deaf Finding Aid

The Valley News, November 1992

Valley News, The

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Brownsville, TX

The Valley News Finding Aid

Silent Voices, November-December 1992

Silent Voices

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Mineapolis, MN

Silent Voices Finding Aid

See Hear, November 1992

See Hear

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Austin, TX

See Hear Finding Aid

Exact Enumeration And Scaling For Fragmentation Of Percolation Clusters, Boyd F. Edwards, M. F. Gyure, M. V. Ferer

All Physics Faculty Publications

The fragmentation properties of percolation clusters yield information about their structure. Monte Carlo simulations and exact cluster enumeration for a square bond lattice and exact calculations for the Bethe lattice are used to study the fragmentation probability a_s(p) of clusters of mass s at an occupation probability p and the likelihood b_s′s(p) that fragmentation of an s cluster will result in a daughter cluster of mass s′. Evidence is presented to support the scaling laws a_s(p_c)∼s and b_s′s(p_c)=s^-φg(s′/s), with φ=2-σ given by the standard cluster-number scaling …

The Update - November 1992, Nova University

The Update

No abstract provided.

The Taxation Of Nonshareholder Contributions To Capital: An Economic Analysis, Thomas L. Evans

Vanderbilt Law Review

Every year, billions of dollars are contributed to corporations by persons who are neither owners nor shareholders of those corporations. These contributions, categorized under the income tax laws as "non- shareholder contributions to capital," play an important economic role in subsidizing the construction of new factories and other improvements to the nation's infrastructure.

This Article concerns the federal income tax treatment of the two principal categories of nonshareholder contributions to capital, which together encompass the great majority of these transactions. The first category consists of contributions made for the purpose of obtaining economic development. Typically, this occurs when governments and …

Ephatha, November-December 1992

Ephatha

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Newark, NJ

Ephatha Finding Aid

Practicing Cpa, Vol. 16 No. 11, November 1992, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Tax Division Newsletter, Volume 8, Number 3, November/December 1992, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Tax Division

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Alumni Newsletter, Volume Five, Number Five, November 1992, Bryant College

Alumni Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Docket, Issue 4, November 1992

The Docket

No abstract provided.

The Maine Progressive - Vol. 7, No. 2 : November 1992, Maine Progressive

The Maine Progressive

"If Maine is to be a more progressive society, people must make a commitment to work toward it. We hope that The Maine Progressive will broaden the base of support for progressive causes and bring together active people involved with many issues from all parts of Maine."
(from Vol.1, Issue 1)

Shanghai Postcard, Mary Evelyn Thurman

Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Catholic Apostolate For The Deaf, November 1992

Catholic Apostolate for the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Allentown, PA

Catholic Apostolate for the Deaf Finding Aid

Pandora's Box Vol. 34 No. 3, York College

Pandora's Box

No abstract provided.

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 68, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/74 Triangular Times, Issue No. 2, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Apathy: An Enemy Among Us
• What's Happening
• Education: The Best Defense
• Flener, Craig. You (Love Poem)
• Harless, Michael. Clinton-Gore Victory . . . Or Ours?
• Heterosexism Workshop: A Success
• Young, Lori. Be All You Can Be
• Meadows, Melanie. Defending Your Life
• Brown, Larry. Election time: Is There an Office for You?
• Comics